Cross-posted.
"Barbara B Tillett" <[log in to unmask]> said in a recent posting, to which
Mac Elrod responded*]:
>>We won't always have the MARC format, and I'd like to start thinking
>>beyond it and planning for the next generation -
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Yet, in other statements and postings the impression has been that even
if RDA replaces existing standards for content, we will still have MARC
and be able to use it much as we do now.
To what extent will that continue to be the case? Is LC also planning
to get out of the MARC business? If so, when? And why? Is it only to
be maintained long enough for people to get used to RDA? This
possibility seems indeed tantamount to throwing out the baby, since by
then AACR would presumably be gone.
>The ISBD and MARC are helpful standards, and I see little advantage in
>inventing square wheels to replace them. Redundancy in MARC, because
>variable field information was once more difficult to access, could be
>reduced. We don't, to be original, have to toss the baby out with the
>bath water.
>
>Mac
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Joanna F. Fountain, Ph.D.
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